Gummed-strip-moistening machine.



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be specifically described.

UNITED STATES Patented May 10, 1904.

PATENT OEEIcE.,

GUIVIMED-STRlP-MOISTENING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming para of Letters Patent No. 759,675, dated May 1o,1904.

Application iiled May 14, 1903- Serial No. 157,095. (No model.)

Be it known that I, JOHN EDGAR CoLvIN, a citizen of the United States.and a resident of Junction City, in the county of Geary and State ofKansas, have invented a new and Improved Gummed-Strip-MoisteningMachine, of which the following is a full, clear, and eX- actdescription.

r1`his invention relates to mechanical means for moistening gummedstrips when they are to be affixed upon an article, and has for itsobject to provide a strip-rnoistening machine of novel simpleconstruction which will contain gummed paper strips of appropriate widthand length and be adapted to deliver these gummed strips in moistenedcondition as may be required for application to afilled paper bag orother package for its sealed closure.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts, as is hereinafter described,and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved stamp-moistening machine.Fig. 2 is a sectional side view of the same. Fig. 3 isa transversesectional view substantially on the line 3 3 inFig. 2. Fig. 11 isaperspeetive view of a novel detail of the invention, and Fig. 5 is afragmentary perspective view of another feature of the invention.

Upon a suitable base 10, which may be in the form of a slab of wood ormetal, a holderbox 11 is mounted and secured, which preferably is formedof sheet metalcireular in contour and at one side provided with anopening of proper size normally closed by a door 11.

Upon the base 10 near the holder-box 11 a preferably sheet-metal chamber12 is secured, having rectangular form and proper di1nen sions foreffective service, the chamber and holder-box being alined, so thatmaterial in the form of paper strips may be drawn from a transverse slot.fc in the holder-box into and through the chamber 12, as willhereinafter On the top of the chamber 12, which is desired to serve as`a water-receptacle, alid 12L is hinged, the hinge a being formed at theend of the chamber nearest to the holder-box. i

A bracket-frame 13, which may with ad vantage be formed as shown,comprising two side walls spaced apart by a transverse top wall, is heldto rock on thehinged end of the lid 127 by a pintle-rod c', forming amember of the hinge c. On the transverse top wall ofthe bracket-frame 13a heavy elongated handle-bar 14: is held by one end, so as to projectaway from the sidewalls of said frame. The end portions of the sidewalls farthest from the transverse end wall of the bracketframe 13 arereduced in width and given the form of similar ears b, Vwhich pass downthrough similarly-spaced slots formed :inthe rear transverse edge of thelid 1.2,the pintlerod of the hinge c passing loosely through oppositeperforations in said ears, so thatthe bracket-frame 13 may be rockedrear-warden the water-chamber 12, as shown by full lines in Figs. 1 and2, and forward, as indicated by dotted lines in the same figures, theheavy handle-bar 14 holding` the bracket framein either inclinedposition. v,

Directly below the bracket-frame 13 a transverse opening c is formed inthe upperedge of the end'wall of the water-chamber 12, and in saidopening one member of an angularly-bent arm is held to rock. The arm ispreferably formed of plate metal bent near its longitudinal center at aright angle d, thus provid. ing two substantially similar members 15 15,and, as shown in Fig. 2, the angular arm is so positioned in the chamber12 that the angle (Z thereof projects downward toward the Vcenter of thebottom of the chamber, while `the parts 15 15, respectively, extenddiagonally toward the front and rear transverse upper edges of thechamber.

The upper portion of the member 15LL extends through the opening' c, andon the part of the same exterior of the water-chamber 12 a quadrangularbox-like head 15" is formed or secured, the side walls of which neartheir lower ends have ears that are perforated to receive the pintle-roda, whereby the bent arm 15 15 and the head 15b receive support TOO andare adapted for receiving a rocking movement, which will raise or lowerthe bent arm in the chamber 12, this rocking movement being effected asfollows: Opposite slots e are formed in the side walls of thebracket-frame 13, these slots having the axis ofv the pintlerod a' as aradial center, and a pivot-bolt g., that occupies these slots e, passesthrough opposite perforations in the sides of the box-like head 15".

The described means for loosely connecting the head 15b with thebracket-frame 13 permits the bracket-frame to receive limited rock-4 ingadjustment toward or from the holder-box 11 and act upon the head 151'when near the termination of rocking movement in either direction, soas to elevate or depress the arm 15 15a correspondingly. Upon the member15 of the bent arm spring-clip flanges 15c are formed oppositely at theside edges and near the free end of the same, these flanges, that arebent toward each other, serving to hold a strip of sponge 15d or otherfibrous material clamped upon the arm and extending from the upper endof the member `15 to a point near the angle (Z. l

In the forward transverse edge of the lid 12a, that is adapted to latchupon the corresponding top edge of the water-chamber 12, an opening isformed at the transverse center thereof having a width that afordslateral clearance for the side edges of the member 15 of the bent arm,so that a paper strip may be drawn through this opening, have contactwith the fibrous material 15, and be guided by the side edges of saidopening.

On the inner side of the lid 12' two spaced guide-strips 16 are securedthat extend longitudinally, and near the front ends of t e guide-stripsan opening L is formed in the lid that cuts through the front transverseedge of the latter, this opening and the spaced guides 16 being disposeddirectly above the fibrous pad 15d.

A cutter 17, preferably having an approximately V-shaped cutting edge,is secured upon the lid 121over the opening 7L, the cutting edge beinginclined upward and forward, as indicated in Figs. 1, 2, and 5.

Assuming that a continuous roll of gummedpaper-strip material A isplaced in the holderbox 11 and that one .end thereof is drawn throughthe cross-slot se in the peripheral wall of the holder-box and thence iscarried through the opening cin the bottom wall of the head 15b andthence into the water-chamber 12 through the transverse opening c, so asto be passed between the lid 121 and guides 16 and thence out throughthe opening z over the fibrous material 15d, the operation of the deviceis as follows: If capillary attraction has not completely saturated thebrous pad 151 with water from that held in the chamber 12, this may bequickly effected by rocking the bracket-frame and handle-bar 14forwardly,

which will completely immerse the pad 15d, whereupon a reverse movementof thehandlebar will rock the angular arm member 15 and pad 15d up intocontact with the gummed side of the paper-strip A that is lowermost.

When it is desired to utilize the strip material A for the sealing of apackage in lieu of tying the same with twine after the bag or othermaterial is wrapped to form a package, there is a strip of the gummedmaterial A drawn from the chamber 12, passing over the wet pad 15d,which will properly moisten the gummed strip as it passes out of thechamber. Any desired length may be given to the paper strip, and it maybe conveniently severed from the portion that is to remain intact withthe roll of such material by simply pressing the paper strip upward andrearward, which will insert the point of the V-shaped cutting edge ofthe cutter 17 into the center of the paper strip and shear it off of themain portion, the end of which is given a V shape for convenientmanipulation owing to the V shape of the cutting-blade 17.

It will be seen that the inclination given to the bracket-frame 13 andthe handle-bar 14 kinks the paper strip A -where it enters the chamber12 and puts the portion of the strip 4 that is within the chamber undertension, so that the part of the paper strip that is drawn out of thechamber 12 will be properly stretched and caused to have intimatecontact with the upper end of the wet pad 15d for the proper moisteningof said end portion of the *paper strip.

Upon severing the moistened strip of gummed paper the package may bequickly sealed by application of said strip in an obvious manner, so asto cover proper edges of the package, which may be of any form bestadapted to hold within or cover dry goods of any sort.

It is intended as a secondary object of the improvement that any desiredprinted matter be placed upon the gummed strips while they are in a longribbon, these advertisements being printed successively upon theungummed side of the strip, so that when a paper bag or other packagehas been lsealed with one of the strips the advertisement will bedisplayed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patente TOO 1. A gummed-strip moistener, comprising awater-holding chamber, means to support and tension a gummed fibrousstrip when drawn from its support through the upper part of thewater-holding chamber, a lid on the chamber, means to guide the strip onthe lower side of the lid, an angularly-bent arm depending at its bendin the water-holding chamber, a moistening device carried by one memberof the bent arm, the remaining member projecting out of an end of thechamber near the lid, a bracket-frame hinged upon this end of thechamber and loosely engaging said projecting ISO portion of the bentarm, the bracket-frame being adapted to carry the gummed strip to themeans for its support on the lid, and a cutter adapted to severamoistened and extended portion of the gummed strip.

2. A gummedstrip moistener, comprising,` a base, a holder-box for a rollof `gu1n1ned-paper-strip material, a Water-holding chamber, a `lidthereon, an angularly-bent arm in the wa ter-chamber, a clasp forholding' fibrous Inaterial on one member of the bent arm, said memberand the fibrous material being adapted to approach near the uppertransverse oorner of the chamber and lid that is farthest from theholder-box, the other member of the arm projecting from the oppositetransverse corner of the lid and Chamber, a bracket-frame hinged uponsaid end of the chamber, a heavy handle-bar on the bracket-frame, abox-like head on the projecting upper end of the bent arm that is Withinthe braeket-frame, and held to rook thereon, a support for the gummedstrip carried by the lid of the chamber, and a strip-cutter mounted uponthe Iid ot' said eharnber, and adapted to sever the moistened portion ofthe strip that is drawn from the chamber.

3. In a device of the character described, the Combination with thevvater-holdingI chamber and the hinged lid thereon, of theangularly-bent arm Vheld to rock near one end by loose engagement ofsaid end of the arm with the pintIe-rod of the hinge for the lid, abraeket-frame also roekable on said pintle-rod, a heavy handle-bar onthe bracket-frame, guides on the lid for the support of a gummed paperstrip, and a fibrous inoistening' device carried by the other member ofthe angular1ybent arm.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speeieation in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN EDGAR GOLVIN.

Vtnesses G. WV. MCKNIGHT, NVILLIAM F. MILLER.

